Genesis 49:6
My soul, don’t come into their council. 2 My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; 1 for in their anger they killed men. 2 In their self-will they hamstrung cattle. 1
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5“Simeon [Hearing] and Levi [United with] are brothers. 2 Their swords are weapons of violence. 1
Cross References
Genesis 34:30Jacob [Supplanter] said to Simeon [Hearing] and Levi [United with], “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] and the Perizzites [Descendants of Belonging to village]. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Psalms 5:10Hold them condemned guilty, God. 2 Let them fall by their own counsels; 1 Thrust them out in the multitude of their rebellious breaches of relationships, 2 for they have rebelled against you. 1
Psalms 26:4I have not sat with deceitful men, 2 neither will I go in with hypocrites. 1
Psalms 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, 2 with the workers of vain striving of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, 2 but mischief is in their hearts. 1
Psalms 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? 2 Why are you disturbed within me? 1 Hope in God! 2 For I shall still yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to him for the yishu'ah ·salvation· of his presence. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:6-8
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. These were next in age to Reuben, and they also had been a grief and shame to Jacob, when they treacherously and… Read the whole commentary →